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Semipcdmate, partly- or half-palmate or webbed. 



Serrate, saw-shaped (having teeth like a saw). 



Sessile, attached directly to anything, without a " foot-stalk." 



Setce, small bristly tufts of fine hairs or feathers. 



Shaft, the tough central stem of a feather, hence the whole 

 feather often. 



Sheath, the horny covering of each mandible. 



Sinuate, waved or wavy in outline. 



Spatulate, flattened and then widened at the end. 



Speculum, the peculiai mirror-like appearance often noticed 

 on the wings of many species of ducks and other birds. 



Spinous, covered with stiff bristles, more or less spiney. 



Spurious, false, or small compared to other things of the same 

 kind and nature ; imperfect, incomplete. 



Sternum, the breast bone. 



Stria', streaks, streaked, striated. 



Sub-basal, halfway between the base and the middle of a thing. 



Subulate, awl-shaped. 



Sub-terminal, halfway between the middle and the point or 

 end of a thing. 



Sulcate, grooved or furrowed. 



Siq^erciliary line, the line [or a line] just above the eye. 



Superior, when represented as being above any given line, 

 usually the median line. 



Synonym [Synonymous], literally the same as : when any two 

 different names are applied to the same order, fam- 

 ily, genus, or species, or particular part of a bird, 

 the one is called a synonym of the other, or the two are 

 synonymous. It refers especially to the scientific names 

 for each individual species. 

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Tarsus, the bone from the heel to the base of the toes (really 

 the meta -tarsus). 



Temporal region, the region of the temples. 



Tenuirostres, birds in which the bill is long, slender, and with 

 short gape (Humming-bird-like). 



